12 Apr 2018

Basic Commands

• "sudo" - use before any command to grant root permissions
• "ls" - obtain a list of directories and files in the current working directory
• "pwd" - return the current working directory
• "cd" - switch to another working directory
• "mkdir folderName" - create a directory named "folderName" in the working directory.
• "cp src des" - copy files from source directory to destination directory
• "rm name" - remove specified file or directory, add -rf to perform recursive remove
• "apt-get" - advance packaging tool, use for software install, update and remove, apt-get update, apt-get remove, apt-get install
• "add-apt-repository src" - add resources installation repo
• "grep" - globally search a regular expression and print, details of grep's usage can be found here
• "cat fileName" - show the text inside a specific file
• "poweroff" - directly shut down the system via terminal